A thousand livery cars are expected to be equipped with roaming wireless Internet by the fall.

Advance file photoCustomers of livery cabs on Staten Island will not see Wi-Fi access in livery cars here in the first phase of the launch.

The community car services are popular in areas with fewer yellow cabs, such as the outer boroughs and upper Manhattan.

New York venture capitalist Alex Mashinsky eventually plans to expand the free, advertising-supported Wi-Fi access.

According to Artie Grover, owner of Mid-Island Car Service and president of the New York Fleet Livery Owners Association, the Wi-Fi is primarily for "black cars," used by executives, and won't be coming to Staten Island's cabs, or at least not yet.